I was curious as to whether there was any religious teaching or training in your childhood years Your story gives me hope that other areligious people who are willing to seek answers to life rsquo s questions will find them if they are willing to ask and seek answers Theo Alhaus I had no rel

Jennifer Fulwiler s article A Sexual Revolution has received dozens of comments and at 19 000 hits and counting is the by far the most-read article on America s new Web site This afternoon and tomorrow Jennifer will be answering questions posed by readers To ask a question of your own post

Anglican drama moves this week to the northern English campus of York University where the five-day Synod is deliberating on the traditionally divisive issue of women bishops There is no question that the Church of England will shortly have them the issue this week is whether traditionalist Angli

Barack Obama is not shy about sharing his personal life with the rest of us Indeed if you decide to run for the presidency you should anticipate that every nook and cranny of your life will be examined in excruciating detail But his speech to the African Methodist Episcopal Church last week in

A review of Ron Hansen's novel about Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Bible still does not figure at the center of Catholic life the way the Eucharist does.

A young feminist embraces the pro-life cause.

The America archives project: bringing 100 years of content online

A skilled author can introduce ideas that change a reader rsquo s consciousness In Disciples of All Nations Lamin Sanneh delivers just that Before engaging directly this important book let me briefly digress to illustrate such a ldquo perspective changing rdquo moment from personal experience

Washington Funeral Mass for Tim Russert The presumptive Democratic and Republican presidential nominees were among the scores of mourners at the private funeral Mass on June 18 for the NBC News Washington bureau chief and “Meet the Press” moderator Tim Russert, who died suddenly June 13

A Guarantee Thank you for “The Forgotten,” by Pierre de Charentenay, S.J. (6/9). The fate of Iraqi Christians should be as important to humanity as was the fate of Muslims in Sarajevo in the early 1990s, and their tragedy should inspire the same solidarity around the world, especially fr

The story of one woman's journey from pro-choice atheist to pro-life Catholic

Tim Russert, Man for Others; Compassion for Refugees

'The Race Card,'reviewed

Every square mile of this planet is holy ground.

Where have all the young people gone?

The Fourth of July is a most appropriate time to recall a discussion St Paul had in his First Letter to the Corinthians There in a dialogue form he hears someone s saying to him Everything is lawful to me Paul s responds But I do not want anything to dominate me He is thinkin

The feastday of St Thomas the Apostle is over but there remains a consideration that is valuable for undersanding the Gospel of John in which Thomas s story occurs The Thomas story is the story that completes John s presentation of the Jesus event John 21 while inspired Scripture